In HTML, a numbered list is called an ordered list and you use two elements, the

(ordered list) element and the
1. (list item) element. A recipe is a great example of an ordered list. Here is an example of the code necessary.

   1. First list item
   2. Second list item
   3. Third list item
   4. Fourth list item
   5. Fifth list item

   This would result in a list that looks like:

   1. First list item
   2. Second list item
   3. Third list item
   4. Fourth list item
   5. Fifth list item